MASTER: sMart mAnagement for futuriStic daTa cEnteRs

近年来，云计算已被证明是托管大规模互联网应用的理想平台。因此，迫切需要进一步发展云基础设施和服务，提高其敏捷性、成本效益、性能和可用性。网络功能虚拟化(NFV)和软件定义网络(SDN)等新兴技术为满足这一需求带来了巨大的希望，因为它们允许将服务动态构建为使用SDN功能轻松互连的虚拟网络功能(VNF)链。

In the recent years, cloud computing has proved to be the ideal platform for hosting large-scale Internet applications. As a result, there is a pressing need to further develop cloud infrastructures and services and enhance their agility, cost-effectiveness, performance and availability. Emergent technologies like Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) hold great promise to fulfill this need as they allow to dynamically build services as chains of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) that are easily inter-connected using SDN capabilities.